James Alfie’s debut picture book, Hugo’s Hair, explores a universal childhood yearning: the desire to blend in, to shed perceived differences for a cloak of conformity. Its protagonist, Hugo, a
Some books earn your trust slowly, page by page, and by the end, you realize you’ve been in careful hands the whole time. What the Trees Remember by Abigail Cutter
What stayed with me after reading I Was Just Standing There Being Stupid was not one shocking episode or one big spiritual claim. It was the steady sense of a person
There’s a scene near the start of Me and Black MAGA where the narrator, a young Black man wearing a red MAGA hat, gets accosted in a Minneapolis library by
The Call of the Bugle opens on the thunder of the Charge of the Light Brigade, but John Amos is more interested in what comes after the charge than in
Nancy Ronquillo’s son Matt enlisted in the Army three months after 9/11, deployed to Iraq with the 82nd Airborne in February 2003, came home with PTSD, and died in a
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